Example sentences of "[verb] from the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treatment of slaves … anything and everything that happens from the time of enslavement in Africa through the Middle Passage and the final sales and treatment in bondage . ’ |
| 2 | If re-issued , priority is reckoned from the time of re-issue ( Ord 26 , r 10(3) ) . |
| 3 | The house , Carpendens Court , dated from the time of Charles I ; it had lately been used as a nursing home and was in sad disrepair . |
| 4 | It would seem that its priority would date from the time of such amendment . |
| 5 | Significantly enough one of the very earliest uses of the term ‘ postmodern ’ , dating from the time of the Second World War , was that of Arnold Toynbee in his A Study of History . |
| 6 | Six of the seven woodcuts of ‘ War ’ ( 1922–23 ) , her major graphic cycle from the years of the Weimar Republic , are shown , but her later work , dating from the time of her dismissal from the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1933 , is thinly covered . |
| 7 | Social democratic parties have existed in Europe for a century or more ; the Democratic and Republican parties in the US are well over a century old , and indeed have a certain continuity with earlier parties dating from the time of the American Revolution ; conservative parties on a mass basis were created soon after the emergence of social democracy in Europe ; and communist parties were formed on a world scale after the Russian Revolution . |
| 8 | Fifteen li north of Tongjiang , at the edge of the T'ang 's great estate , were the ruins of an ancient Buddhist monastery that dated from the time of the great Sung dynasty . |
| 9 | The subject 's reaction time was measured from the time at which the target phoneme occurred ( not from the onset of the word containing the target ) . |
| 10 | In order to remove all doubt , the Law Commission in their Report Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) No 160 recommended that the concept of merchantability should explicitly include reasonable durability as measured from the time of supply and this was included in s2B(e) of the Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 . |
| 11 | In the words of Stuart Eizenstat , Jimmy Carter 's domestic policy chief , ‘ One can trace from the time of the New Deal through the early and mid-parts of the Nixon administration , a clear , gradual , perceptible increase in presidential power relative to the legislative branch . |
| 12 | However , since the late 1960s — roughly speaking from the time of the escalation of the Vietnam War and the student riots in Paris — the rate of growth of gross national product in real terms in all Western countries has fallen noticeably . |
| 13 | This is no easy task when it is aimed at an entire work force and when the normal reading habits of the employees may range from The Times at one end to The Sun at the other . |
| 14 | This is a convenient practice as it avoids the need , for example , for speculation as to how the injured person 's condition will develop from the time of the initial injury or for speculation as to what his financial loss up to the date of trial at least will be . |
| 15 | This would seem to be especially true when the foal exhibits a characteristic that is clearly opposite to how the dam herself has behaved from the time of her birth . |
| 16 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ It is a nonsense to measure from the time of referral to the time of operation because not all out-patients require operations . ’ |
| 17 | Although history dates it to the Golden Age of Magna Graecia , some of the region 's most glorious monuments date from the time of Byzantium and Norman rule . |
| 18 | The initial treatment intervals start from the time of completion of the initial recanalisation , whether this took one or more treatments . |
| 19 | Mass production dates from the time of Henry Ford , who was the first man to adopt the principle of the production line , when he used this approach to produce a restricted range of motor cars put together in a flow-line process . |
| 20 | The Hellenistic age dates from the time of the victories of Alexander the Great ( PLATE 39 ) . |
| 21 | It dates from the time of the Civil War when many registers were not properly kept ; thus , under the year 1647 the vicar of Hooton Pagnell ( Yorks. ) wrote in his register : |
| 22 | His word conveyed power and achieved results as it had from the time of creation itself . |
| 23 | A further example of an indirect restraint is found in the case of Mineral Water Bottle Exchange and Trade Protection Society v Booth ( 1887 ) 36 Ch D 465 where a trade association had a rule that no member should employ an employee who had left the service of another member without the consent in writing of his late employer until a period of two years had elapsed from the time of the end of his employment . |
| 24 | To the left , and two doors along to the right , are two structures which have survived from the time of this picture to the present — apart , that is from Inigo Jones 's Banqueting House just visible on the same side of the street in a haze of sunlight . |
| 25 | Horses that are well handled from the time of being foals are most unlikely to be aggressive towards us . |
| 26 | You are covered from the time of leaving home to the time of arrival home from your holiday . |
| 27 | But this attitude changed from the time of Alexander the Great ( 336–323BC ) ( fig. 14 ) . |
| 28 | George Jones has quoted from The Times of 1880 to show that it existed before the creation of the present local authorities ( Jones 1969 : 150 ) . |
| 29 | It was firmly established from the time of Gregory VII that the pope had the exclusive power to issue new law in case of necessity ( Dictatus Pape c.7 ) — to put forward new decrees and remedies against new excesses and to dispense from or mitigate the law in some cases . |
| 30 | Some of this evidence will derive from the time of the event , some of it will appear in a standard text book , or a more specialised monograph ( see Analytical Reading , p. 10 ) . |